2. Immigration Periodization Period of Colonial Immigration
(1607-1775) Period of Immigration Regulations (1775-1820) Period of
Asylum Immigration (1821-1848) Period of Industrial Immigration
(1849-1920) Period of Restricted Immigration (1882-1964) Period of
Modern Immigration (1965-2000) 3. Colonial Immigration (1500s-
1775) Groups of settlers from Europe came and established colonies
in different parts of America. 1620 Plymouth, Massachusetts
Religious Freedom 1607 Jamestown, Virginia Fortune & Gold 1598
Spanish Southwest Proselytizing 1608 New France Fur Trade 4.
Colonial Immigration (1500s- 1775) Increasing numbers of people
came to America in indentured servitude or slavery 20 African
slaves arrive in Jamestown (1619) 5. Immigration Regulations
(1775-1820) Revolutionary War (1775-1783) War of 1812 First few
immigration regulations: Naturalization Act of (1790) Alien and
Sedition Acts (1798) Prohibition of slave imports (1808) Census of
immigrating aliens required by shipmasters (1819) 6. Asylum
Immigration (1821-1848) Irish Potato Famine (1846) Crop failure in
Germany European Revolutions (1848) Irish, German mass immigration
to America 7. Industrial Immigration (1849-1881) Gold Rush lures
many immigrant workers, especially Chinese (1849) American census
begins surveying the nativity of citizens (1850) Homestead Act land
provisions attract European immigrants (1862) Irish and Chinese
workers hired to build transcontinental railroad (1863) 8.
Restricted Immigration (1882-1964) Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
Alien Contract Labor Law (1885) Establishment of Bureau of
Immigration (1891) Ellis Island opens (1892) Literacy test instated
for immigrants (1917) Emergency Quota Act (1921) Establishment of
of Border Patrol (1924) Immigration Act of 1924 Oriental Exclusion
Act (1924) Alien Registration Act (1940) 9. Modern Immigration
(1965-Present) Immigration and Nationality Act (1965) Refugee Act
(1980) Immigration Reform and Control Act (1986) Illegal
Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (1996) Patriot
Act (2001) 10. Conclusion Continuity Immigrants come to America
looking for economic opportunity, religious freedom, and freedom
from political unrest Nativism Change Fluctuating numbers of
immigrants Periods of open doors for immigration, and periods of
stringent limitations on immigrants 11. Works Cited
http://www.history.com/topics/u-s-immigration-before-1965
http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/immigration/timeline.html
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/immigration_chron.cfm
http://www.ushistory.org/us/38c.asp
http://www.pbs.org/itvs/thecity/america1.html
http://www.flowofhistory.org/themes/movement_settlement/uspolicytimeline.php
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